Karma is awesome for a couple reasons. Let's see what she has going for her:

- One of the most powerful shields in the game - A heal that can hit your entire team - A slow debuff on the enemy - A haste buff that can also hit your entire team - An awesome passive - Two AoE damage abilities - She can be practically unkillable

She's the single most versatile support in the entire game.

The downside? She is pretty team reliant, so you're only going to be good with her if your team is good, and she has a high skill curve.

She doesn't have the straight up heals that Soraka the Ambulance does, she doesn't have real CC, and she doesn't deal ZOMGHUGE carry-like damage. But she does have an awesome shield, a great speed buff/debuff, a heal that can work miracles in a teamfight, and has respectable AoE damage, especially when her passive kicks in.

So no, Karma isn't "terribad". She just requires more of the player, something a lot of people haven't taken the time to figure out. And that's before even talking about Dominion, which isn't lolboring, but that's a preference thing.

The problem with Karma is that she is AP dependent. Her shield and her heal are both terrible without large amounts of AP. Unfortunately AP items cost gold, which means to farm her up you are going to be stealing cs from your lane partner, which means you aren't a support anymore. As mentioned already, Karma isn't a carry. Even with AP she doesn't have the burst capabilities of other APs

The issue with that is that you're assuming she's taking the full on support role - she's not built like that. Karma is much more like Lux or Morgana: an AP caster with support built in. Certainly not a carry, but with AP her attacks will hit hard and she provides much more support. You're right, Karma does need CS to succeed. Gp5 simply won't cut it for the AP items she requires. But you don't have to be stuck in bottom babysitting for her to be effective.

The issue with that is that you're assuming she's taking the full on support role - she's not built like that. Karma is much more like Lux or Morgana: an AP caster with support built in. Certainly not a carry, but with AP her attacks will hit hard and she provides much more support. You're right, Karma does need CS to succeed. Gp5 simply won't cut it for the AP items she requires. But you don't have to be stuck in bottom babysitting for her to be effective.

Except unlike Lux or Morganna, she has no form of hard CC to bring to a fight.

Played 2 games last night of dominion waiting for d3 beta to come back up. First one I just dominated like 20/5/10 against a more carry centric team. Next game was all ******* tanky dps. I got absolutely **** on, it goes as follows.